(mǔ) - mother; female (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
mǔTraditional: 母
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Translation
mother; female (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A pictographic character: a drawing of a kneeling woman with two dots marking the breasts, denoting a mother and, by extension, the female of a species.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- a pictograph of a woman with marked breasts
Stroke order
母
Examples
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My parents both live in the UK.
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My mother likes flowers very much.
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Her mother is a teacher.
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The mother and daughter look very alike.
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She is the mother of three children.
母 (mǔ) is a bound morpheme meaning mother or female, used in 母亲 (mǔ qīn) "mother" and 父母 (fù mǔ) "parents".
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 母.
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